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Lubbock On Everything: Adventures In Art and Music with Terry Allen
•There must be something in the water in Lubbock, Texas, that produced songwriters, musicians and artists such as Buddy Holly, Mac Davis, and the singer-songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen, whose artwork was featured at LA Louver’s booth at Frieze LA and who gave two performances during Frieze Week at… -
Literary Twofer Finds Characters ‘In Sickness And In Health’ And On ‘Yom Kippur In A Gym’
•Nora Gold's novellas, In Sickness and In Health, and Yom Kippur in a Gym (Guernica Editions) COVER COURTESY OF NORA GOLD AND GUERNICA EDITIONS Nora Gold, the prize-winning Canadian author of novels and short stories and the founder and editor-in-chief of JewishFiction.net, has just published what Vegas aficionados call a twofer… -
Los Angeles Ballet Takes Next Steps
•Last June, when I interviewed Melissa Barak, the former dancer, choreographer, founder of Barak Ballet, who is now the artistic director of Los Angeles Ballet (LAB) she spoke of her belief that LAB could distinguish itself and catalyze the audience for dance in Los Angeles with new works, in much… -
Mozart as Guilty Pleasure
•"Mozart in the Jungle" which I binged watched on Amazon's streaming service recently is a great example of what I call a really good bad show. Which is another way of saying that although it is thin on plot, the characters are at times caricatures and there are moments of...… -
Israeli Pop Legend Danny Sanderson Has a Date With LA
•If you've been to Israel in the last 40 years or heard Israeli popular music, then you probably know Danny Sanderson, who will be performing with his band at the Gindi Auditorium at American Jewish University on Dec. 8....... View Original Article -
Paula Bronstein and The Big Story
•How do we understand the impact of climate change and natural disasters on people and architecture, and how does humanity learn from our mistakes and try to prepare for potential future cataclysms?...... View Original Article -
Literary paprika
•Jan 25, 2007 ... Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he's an author and journalist who has written for The New York Times ...... View Original Article -
Dr. David Agus & his Obsessive Quest for a Longer Life
•Ditch the Stilettos! Throw out the vitamins! Oh, and get a dog. Those are just a few of the trailblazing oncologist's rules for disease-free living in his new book... View Original Article -
Jon Baitz's Journey to Other Desert Cities
•Baitz's play seeks an alternative way out of the seeming impasses of our times -- our political deadlocks, our family dramas, even our most heartfelt and ego-driven certitudes -- by making us experience a greater emotional truth. View Original Article -
A Bed of Roses
•In person, Larry Miller, president of Sit 'n Sleep, is less 'Crazy Eddie' and more 'Uncle Larry.' When I went to visit him in his executive offices in Gardena, next to his 240,000-square-foot warehouse, he struck me, no kidding, as a man who sleeps well at night. View Original Article -
The first Jewish president? Lincoln, in the Abrahamic tradition
•Abraham Lincoln has been dead for almost 150 years, yet suddenly he's everywhere. At the Skirball Cultural Center, you can see an original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by Lincoln, amid an impressive array of founding American documents. View Original Article -
The Department Store and the Culture It Created
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